Sentences with phrase «together around a concept»

Having worked as a community organizer naturally draws me into public space and discourse, to bring people together around a concept, an issue or a dream.

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We just need folks willing to come together around a great concept
The concept of mobile payments has been around for several years, but a few things had to come together to make Apple Pay a reality.
With Easter around the corner, I had to throw together a bunny concept.
Work by Scheller, Jahn, John Heuser (Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis), and others advanced the concept that VAMP / synaptobrevin and syntaxin form coils that wrap around each other along their lengths, thus drawing together the membranes in which they're embedded.
High - concept in the basest definition of the term, the film would fall apart with a sigh if it weren't held together, however tenuously, by jump - cuts, zooms, slo - mo — the whole kitchen sink of obfuscating choices courtesy an artist trying way too hard to be au courant by imitating a style of film that hasn't been fresh since around the time that Tarantino hit the scene.
Just making my list at number 10 is Andrew Niccol's wasted opportunity In Time, a film with a terrific concept — a world where time is literally money, with people working for and buying things with increments of time (2 minutes for coffee, 30 minutes to ride the bus to work etc.)-- that is frittered away to concentrate on running around and building a «relationship» between two leads, Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried, who don't have the sufficient chemistry together to make it convincing.
It's not the glorification that I take issue with; it's more about the difficulty in putting together a half - way decent movie around the concept.
Greg and Earl are co-workers in the sense that they make short films together that are built around the concepts of some great classic movies.
In furthering our commitment to STEM learning, Toorak College is embarking on a new project to create a whole new building designed around the concepts of imagination, creation and implementation, and so it ties together ideas of strategic thinking, with marketing and even entrepreneurship.
Students will bring concepts of industrial design, electronics, programming and connectivity together in a course focused around developing «smart» devices for everyday life.
This book helps students embrace the concept that the people around the world, from different times and various cultures, are more alike than they are different and together everyone can make it a good day for the world.
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen is centered around an interesting concept, filled with conflict, features eclectic characters, and possesses the causality necessary to tie a story together.
The panel opened with a video introduction by Alan Moore wherein he spoke about his initial concept that prompted the formation of the Electricomics project, a scenario in which he imagined that «all forms of electronic communication somehow connected up in some mysterious fashion, in which people could talk to each other all around the world and enjoy new sorts of entertainment media», and he also said that this project now contains some of the «very best writing talent and artistic talent in the industry, all coming together to tell stories in a new, hopefully improved way».
New Road Hotel's concept will focus around stripped - back luxury and necessity, bringing guests together in their welcoming lobby spaces and perfecting the finer details of service, comfort, and food, down to a tee.
Despite those niggles the game around which everything spins proves to be a rock - solid coming together of great concepts that intertwine seamlessly to create the most interesting third person shooter since Spec Ops: The Line (and for very different reasons).
Sparkle 2 is based around a simple concept: Match colored marbles together to make them disappear.
Co-curated by Betti - Sue Hertz of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Ruijun Shen of GuangDong Times Museum in Guangzhou, China, and Xiaoyu Weng of Kadist Art Foundation, which has offices in Paris and San Francisco, the group exhibition is also a site to bring together three public art spaces and curators around a shared interest — though not in the forms one might first associate with the concept: traditional Chinese landscape and Bay Area figurative painting.
The concept was previously unveiled at CES and a few other locations, but for the European unveiling, BYTON created an installation around the vehicle and put together a miniature design studio on the lower level of their venue.
Designed by architecture firm BIG, around a generative concept they call «Hedonistic Sustainability,» the development throws together more ideas about housing than are found in any second year architecture school design studio.
Law school focuses on learning the law, yet a significant portion of your legal life is based, not around digesting legal concepts, but by putting together tangible work product.
According to the designer, Patty Anderson from Waterview Kitchens, the family wanted an open concept design incorporating an island as large as possible for the entire family to gather around and have enough space to mingle and eat together.
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